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Enzie,
Just a couple of notes on this pass-through.
I think you're struggling with the hair because you're treating it as -- hair(!) More specifically, as hairs. If you see it first as a form with its own volume and planes and light and shadow sides, I think this will fall into place for you. If you squint at your reference photos, the individual strands or locks of hair largely disappear into the shadow side of the head. Not completely, of course, but very few light areas in that shadow side are brighter than the dark areas in the side in light.
The rather unusual way that her hair is "nested" on top is confusing things a bit, but try to think light and dark, rather than blonde and (what looks like) darker roots.
Once you get the lights and darks on the form of the hair correct, surprisingly little detail in terms of individual strands or locks will fully present it as hair.
The other note for now involves the shadow (our left) side of the fleshy area above her upper lip. One of the distinguishing (cute) features of this girl's mouth is the way it tucks in, in a concavity of sorts, as it moves toward the corner of the mouth on our left side. As it partakes of that form, the shadow and the lip become nearly the same value, so much so that the top edge of the lip is almost completely lost. Instead, you have suggested with a lightening in that area (including an almost white section near the red upper lip), that that area is actually protruding.
I'm not sure what you're doing to get the "haze" that you refer to, but I suspect that you're putting paint on too thinly, perhaps even kind of tentatively scrubbing it on. Get your mix where you want it and then put lots of paint down on the canvas, so that you are creating an additional, workable layer of paint.
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